endure for ages if the foundations are not sapped.** Kino paid a
second visit to the ruin of Casa Grande in 1697, this time
accompanied by Captain Juan Mateo Mange, an officer detailed with his
command to escort the padres on their perilous journeys.

* The name is written Kuhn, Kuhne, Quino, and in several other ways.
Humboldt used Kuhn, and either this or Kuhne is probably the correct
form, but long usage gives preference to Kino.

* See The North Americans of Yesterday, by F. S. Dellenbaugh, p. 234;
and for complete details see papers by Cosmos Mindeleff, Thirteenth
An. Rep, Bu. Eth. and Fifteenth An. Rep. Bu, Eth.; also Font's
description in Coues's Garces, p. 93.


The method of the authorities was to establish a military post,
called a presidio, at some convenient point, from which protection
would be extended to several missions. The soldiers in the field wore
a sort of buckskin armour, with a double-visored helmet and a
leathern buckler on the left arm. Kino was as often without as with
the guardianship of these warriors, and seems to have had very little
trouble with the natives. The Apaches, then and always, were the
worst of all, In his numerous entradas he explored the region of his
labours pretty thoroughly, reaching, in 1698, a hill from which he
saw how the gulf ended at the mouth of the Colorado; and the
following year he was again down the Gila, which he called Rio de los
Apostoles, to the Colorado, now blessed with a fourth name, the Rio
de los Martires. "Buena Guia" "del Tizon," "Esperanza," and "los
Martires," all in about a century and a half, and still the great
Dragon of Waters was not only untamed hut unknown. Kino kept up his